how to query restful rails app with curl?

Question

here's my problem.. resource: user method: create

I call curl like this:

curl -X POST -H 'Content-type: text/xml' -d '<xml><login>john</login><password>123456</password></xml>' http://0.0.0.0:3000/users

but the params hash in rails look like this:

{"xml"=> {"login"=>"luca", "password"=>"123456"}}

I want it to look like this:

{"login"=>"luca", "password"=>"123456"}

I can get it to be like that if I pass the parameters on the url (...?login=luca&pas....), but that's not good...

any idea?

Answer 1

curl -X POST -H 'Content-type: text/xml' -d '<login>john</login><password>123456</password>' http://0.0.0.0:3000/users

What does that get you?

After getting your comment, why not access it through params[:xml] in your controller, rather than params[:login] and params[:password]?

@user = User.authenticate(params[:xml])

That will pass login and password to your model.

Answer 2

curl -X POST -d 'login=john&password=123456' http://0.0.0.0:3000/users

See also: Stack Overflow: How do I make a POST request with curl

Answer 3

Hey I had this problem for a long time as well. I found out that you can do this -

Make a new defaults.rb inside the initializers directory: yourapp/config/initializers/defaults.rb

ActiveRecord::Base.include_root_in_json = false

Now the root should be gone from your json.